by Sean Robinson | Jun 28, 2022 | Sean Robinson
As someone involved heavily in machine learning and AI, I often get called in to answer questions related to AI in pop culture- but the recent LaMDA interview has sparked more conversation on the topic than usual. In case you haven’t heard the news, a Google...
by Sean Robinson | Oct 10, 2019 | Sean Robinson
I grew up fat. “Plump” might be a better term for a youngster who was athletic but also ate vast quantities of junk food. Somehow I managed to compete in gymnastics with a frame that, inflated to adult size, had around 70 extra pounds that had to be...
by Sean Robinson | Jan 9, 2018 | Sean Robinson
The replacement of “raw” manual labor or repetitive mental tasks with robots is definitely upon us. This has to be the single most talked-about facet of the AI revolution, and I’d definitely agree that this level of job displacement (at least) is in...
by Sean Robinson | Sep 6, 2017 | Sean Robinson
I was recently standing in a department store, getting a new waistcoat to further cement the “professor gym-rat” look I have carefully constructed. Next month I’m gonna try suspenders and a bow-tie. Anyway, during the checkout process, some...
by Sean Robinson | Sep 6, 2017 | Sean Robinson
In my time working as a government scientist, I was able to work with a lot of cross-disciplinary teams, often putting math-and-code-heavy folks like myself together with domain-specific specialists like chemists or biologists who worked in wet labs more and made...
by Sean Robinson | Jun 27, 2017 | Sean Robinson, Text Analysis
This entry may change over time, as the needs and purpose of my readers vary, but the core will remain the same. I find myself wondering what technology must have “looked like” to folks just entering the industrial revolution. Strange engines running on...
